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The Most Exciting and Important Music News in New JerseyThe Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music Is Open For Business
It’s complete. It’s beautiful. The long-talked about brand new home of the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music on the campus of Monmouth University in West Long Branch has finally opened to the public. The immersive exhibits are just the start.
The Native American Music Experience
In celebration of indigenous music in America, The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music will team up with Hard Rock International (which is owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida) to present a free concert called “The Native American Music Experience” on June 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Pollak Theatre of Monmouth University at 400 Cedar Avenue in West Long Branch. The show kicks off a week of festivities surrounding the new digs of the Center.
Bruce Springsteen Center To Celebrate America June 4 & 5
Just days prior to the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music moving into its new home on June 7, it will celebrate America’s 250th birthday with an all-star assemblage of talent on one stage June 4 and 5. “Music America: The Songs that Shaped Us,” at the OceanFirst Bank Center on the Monmouth University campus, will feature Jon Bon Jovi, Jackson Browne, Rosanne Cash, Kenny Chesny, Gary Clark Jr., Dion, Dropkick Murphys, Shemekia Copeland, Valerie June, Keb Mo, Nils Lofgren, Darlene Love, David Sancious, Bruce Springsteen, Tony Trischka & Sister Sadie, Mavis Staples, Trombone Shorty and the New Breed Brass Band, Stevie Van Zandt, Public Enemy and Jimmy Vaughan with The Disciples of Soul as the House Band.